Nice Underwear

Today at school I spent the morning coming up with my next lesson for my first year students. I’m planning on doing a lesson on ordering food at a restaurant. More on that next week. I had a couple of pieces of bread for lunch, and then snuck out of there early to meet Kuniko in Kobe.

Actually, I left on time, but I had wanted to confirm that it was OK. There were unfortunately no people around to check with, so I just left.

Kuniko and I met in Kobe to have some wedding pictures taken. The place where we are getting married is going to take pictures of us in our wedding gear on Wednesday. We wanted to have our picture taken in traditional Japanese clothes. Our wedding place also can do that, but they were charging an arm and a leg for the service. Kuniko shopped around and found a cheaper place that looked good.

We showed up and talked over what we wanted done, and then Kuniko went in to get her makeup, hair, and kimono started. I had an extra 30 minutes or so, and so I walked around the area and did some sightseeing before coming back. Kuniko was sequestered away in a private room, but they came and had me change into my outfit.

They explained to me how to put on the inner layers, and left me alone to do that myself. As I was taking off my pants I realized that I made a poor choice in underwear for today’s event. I had no choice but to stand there as two female employees came back in and suited me up. They couldn’t stop giggling while they got me dressed, but I think that might have been more to do with my bad Japanese.

Finally I was all suited up and I came into the studio. Kuniko and I saw each other and we had completely different reactions. Mine was “Wow! You look great!” Kuniko just looked at me and laughed.

We did lots of different poses. It was the first time for me in a long time to have my picture taken professionally. They did a great job, and Kuniko pulled through even though she was wearing a very heavy kimono.

They had tons of pictures already loaded up on the computer for us by the time we changed back into our regular clothes, and Kuniko and I tore through them, discarding lots of them right away. We finally settled on two pictures, and they will be delivered to our place sometime in early November. I was dying to get the whole load of pictures – they had the data right there in the computer in front of us, but they were charging about $1000 for a CD with all the photos. Yeah right. We just got the two pictures, but it was a little sad to see all the other great shots of us getting flushed down the digital toilet.

We came on back home on an insanely packed train – I barely made it inside. Kuniko and I did a little shopping at Ito Yokado, and then Kuniko cooked up tonight’s dinner (oyakodonburi) and tomorrow’s dinner as well (oden).

Tomorrow we’re having more pictures taken in Kobe, this time in our official outfits. We’re trying to take advantage of this easy week at school.


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